Ashish Narayan

Nirmalkaya, read as a business being decided

Built one day, rebuilt the next

Where wellness begins.

  1. Cover
    01Cover — Six pivots, one of them built and rebuilt inside a day.Full size ↗
  2. It did not start as software
    02It did not start as software — A clinic turnaround checklist, and one sentence in it that became a rule in the code.Full size ↗
  3. Six pivots
    03Six pivots — Each one reversed a decision that had already shipped.Full size ↗
  4. The incentive that pointed the wrong way
    04The incentive that pointed the wrong way — Both halves of the obvious scheme were rewarding the wrong thing.Full size ↗
  5. Switched off is a finished state
    05Switched off is a finished state — Four things built, working, and deliberately not live.Full size ↗
  6. Did this month make money
    06Did this month make money — The console could always say what came in. Nothing recorded what went out.Full size ↗
  7. How this was made
    07How this was made — One person, an AI collaborator, and a record of who decided what.Full size ↗
  8. Stated limits
    08Stated limits — What this study could not verify, and what it deliberately did not look at.Full size ↗

Executed by me, with an AI collaborator writing most of the code under constraints I set. The reasoning behind every pivot comes from my own build log and decision log; the dates come from version control. No revenue, bookings or business results appear, because none are documented.

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